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Mollie Hull of Hiwassee Dam is a local teenager who created a music ministry to share her talents and boost her voice for the Lord.
Hiwassee Dam - Mollie Hull was 4 years old when she started singing for the Lord. Mollie said lost her biological father when she was only 2, and singing was a way to feel better about his passing and get closer to the Lord.
She started singing at Shiloh Baptist Church in Tusquittee when she was very young. Mollie said she would sing in the choir with the congregation and then started singing solo songs when she was 4 years old. She also got saved at that age.
“My mom was a substitute teacher at the school and she was asking the students if they knew Jesus in the after-school program,” Mollie said. “I was there, and I said I wanted to get saved, and we prayed together. I did understand what I was doing, and my called the pastor, Clark Moss, afterward. He asked me a lot of questions, and I answered according.”
Mollie has been singing for 10 years, learning to write songs and play guitar along the way. She has continued singing at different churches, branching out farther each time – she has performed at the Hurbert-Johnson Friendship House homeless shelter, Murphy Christmas tree-lighting ceremony and local nursing homes. She does a lot of performances in Tennessee with the family, traveling a 100-mile radius for her singing.
“I like to sing at revivals and for fundraisers,” she said. “I do it all for the Lord.”
A positive influence
Mollie’s mother, Cynthia, started the Facebook page in October 2020 to bring awareness to the music ministry by posting Mollie singing almost every day. If they are not somewhere singing, they do live sessions from home and post them on Facebook.
“My passion is I want to set the influence for other teens, I go to churches and see a lot of elders get up and sing and I rarely see teens in a church,” Mollie said with enthusiasm. “I want teens to see me doing it and know that it is OK to step out and be different for the Lord.”
She said every place she has performed benefits for, she rarely sees many teens or youth at the events. She wants to change this and hopes to involve more youth in the future with contemporary Christian music.
“I like contemporary Christian and old gospel,” Mollie said. “My favorite Christian artist is Lauren Daigle, and my favorite songs to sing are, ‘When I Lay My Isaac down’ and ‘This is Amazing Grace.’ ”
Mollie said she has more than 80 songs that she rehearses and performs. She rarely follows a plan when she is on stage, letting the holy spirit lead in all that she does.
“The Lord tells me what to sing, and I let the Holy Spirit lead,” she said. “I have no idea what I’m going to sing beforehand, but when I get on stage I just know which songs to sing.”
Singing a message
Mollie is a member of One Voice, Second Chance ministry with pastors Lissie and Bruce Welch at the home-based ministry. Mollie said her pastor has been an influential support to her music ministry.
“My pastor has been a big supporter of my singing and has helped me step into another calling the Lord has laid on my heart which is preaching,” Mollie said. “I want to sing and preach. Right now my preaching is more like testifying, but I can feel the Lord moving within me.”
Mollie said she likes to break down the music she creates by the song’s meaning to her, explaining the song through the message it’s trying to convey. As a 14-year-old, Mollie is starting to think about how she wants to expand her music ministry in the future and how she wants to continue to grow in the Lord.
“I hope to be continuing what I am doing and more souls are saved from what I do and be able attract more people to the Lord,” she said. “I would like to one day take classes to get ordained.”
Mollie is homeschooled in a Christian-based program. She has morning devotion, prayer and Bible study, then regular academics. She hopes to continue in the same path and grow to the point where she can take classes and be ordained to preach.
She recently performed under The Worship Tent in Murphy and Greenback house of prayer in Maryville, Tenn. In the future, she plans to perform at the Clinton Gospel Barn in Clinton, Tenn. and “Singing for Jesus” Festival in Young Harris, Ga., a large event where Christian artists like Toby Mac have performed.
She will be going to a recording studio in July to record her first album through the love offerings she has received and she has added T-shirts with “Miss Mollie’s Music Ministry” printed on them to sell in order to purchase new sound equipment.
“Usually I bring my own equipment I take to different venues. I have four different mics to use,” Mollie said. “I’d like to have a mixing board, and more mobile and lightweight equipment for when we have to travel far.”
Honoring God
She said both of her parents are proud of the things she has been able to do through her music ministry.
“One of my goals every time I perform is to make my dad cry. He almost always does, and just shrugs and says it’s his allergies,” Mollie laughed. “I have had many different people tell me when I was growing up that they saw me becoming a preacher one day.”
Mollie said she has heard a lot of controversial viewpoints about her becoming a preacher as a female, but she has had a lot of support from people who believe in her.
“She is choosing a path in honoring God,” said Mollie’s mother, Cynthia Hull. “She wakes up in the middle of the night and writes down scriptures that come to her in a book by her bed. I would have my daughter on that path than any other thing in the world.”
Mollie’s first original song is called “Numerator,” which she said is about how no one goes over God’s power, He is the Almighty.
“When I was trying to fall asleep one night, I started getting words in my head and I wrote it down and by morning, I had a song sitting there,” she said. “I found some back-tracking music on YouTube for it, and I had a complete song. My family bought the rights to the music, and I wrote the lyrics.”
Mollie practices regularly during the day, even when she is feeding her chickens. She laughed out loud when she said her chickens enjoy her singing.
For details about Mollie and where she will be performing, check out her Facebook page at Miss Mollies Music Ministry or email sazack123@gmail.com.